> From: Artur Hecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: den 19 november 2002 20:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: eap_identity or username attribute?

> i only wanted to say, that the certified identity could be e.g. 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] so, the eap-id would carry [EMAIL PROTECTED] each AP 
> should basically put this value into User-Name, so it would be 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] again. We could verify that for both 
> authentication and 
> authorization the three fields are the same, certificate = eap-id = 
> User-Name.

Right. I don't think it is standardized how to check that the identity/user-name 
corresponds to the certificate, so one would probably just base the check on what Win 
XP does.
 
> now the server receiving the request from the AP happens to be in 
> visited.com. so it has to proxy the request to the home.com radius 
> server. it could happen, that home.com (being some huge ISP) 
> demands a 
> stripped user-name, i.e. simply kevin. so the server at visited.com 
> would strip it, but in the User-Name only, since the 
> EAP-Message is not 
> considered when proxying. Now home.com, when running 
> freeradius, would 
> state that the three attributes mentioned before are *not* 
> the same and 
> would reject, right? or did i misget your point?

I see your point, but I just don't think it makes sense to demand a stripped User-Name 
when using certificates for authentication.

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